Dr S. J. Heyworth, Dr M J Robinson ; Thursday 10 ; Examination Schools
Week 1: Literature and intertextuality in the core texts. The lecture will start from Catullus’s passing observations on forensic rhetoric and then consider what Cicero says about poetry in the pro Archia, before moving on to specific reference to other writers and allusive marking of intertextuality, touching on all five poetic texts.
Week 2: Genre in Catullus 64 and Propertius; then intertextuality in the Eclogues, esp. Ecl. 3, 6, 8 and the constant reworking of Theocritus, and other authors.
Week 3: Allegory. What might encourage allegorical readings of these texts? Poetical allegory? Political allegory? Social allegory? [Mainly drawing on Vergil (Ecl. 5, 9) and Horace (1.14, 3.3, 3.27).]
Week 4: The interrelationship of poetry and politics: Ecl. 1, 4, 8, 9; the Roman Ode, Carm. 3.24-5 (with some background on Horace); Prop. 4 (with a survey of political aspects of earlier books).
Mr P. G. McC. Brown ; Tuesday 3:15 Wks 1-4 ; Ioannou Centre
As last term, instruction for this subject is provided by a combination of lectures and classes; for the classes students will be expected to write essays and make presentations. The classes are designed to complement the lectures, and those offering the subject should attend the lectures as well as the classes.
One week will be devoted to each of the following plays, in order, in weeks 1-4: Bacchides, Pseudolus, Eunuchus, Adelphoe. The lectures will cover aspects of Bacchides 530-760, Pseudolus 1-380, Eunuchus 1-506 and Adelphoe 1-287 respectively. The student presentations will focus either on some of the scenes following those covered in the lectures or on more general questions.
The class in week 5 will give students a further opportunity to discuss the sort of more general questions that are likely to be set by the examiners at the beginning of week 6.
Mr P. G. McC. Brown ; Thursday 4 Wks 1-5 ; Ioannou Centre
As last term, instruction for this subject is provided by a combination of lectures and classes; for the classes students will be expected to write essays and make presentations. The classes are designed to complement the lectures, and those offering the subject should attend the lectures as well as the classes.
One week will be devoted to each of the following plays, in order, in weeks 1-4: Bacchides, Pseudolus, Eunuchus, Adelphoe. The lectures will cover aspects of Bacchides 530-760, Pseudolus 1-380, Eunuchus 1-506 and Adelphoe 1-287 respectively. The student presentations will focus either on some of the scenes following those covered in the lectures or on more general questions.
The class in week 5 will give students a further opportunity to discuss the sort of more general questions that are likely to be set by the examiners at the beginning of week 6.
Dr R.E. Ash, Dr T. C. B. Rood ; Thursday 2-3:30 Wks 1-4 ; Merton College
These classes will take a thematic approach to a range of central issues at stake in the set-texts for the Historiography option. They are intended primarily for those taking the Historiography option for Greats. Others are welcome to attend, but only if they are prepared to be fully involved and to offer presentations as and when required.
Michaelmas Term
1. Proems
2. Battle Descriptions
3. Geography and Ethnography
Hilary Term
1. Speeches
2. Characterisation
3. Religion, gods, fate
4. General overview.
Dr D. Obbink ; Wednesday 11 Wks 2-4 ; Christ Church
Mr C. Metcalf ; Friday 11 Wks 1-4 ; Examination Schools
Dr M. Davies ; Wednesday 9 Wks 5-8 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr R. B. Rutherford ; Monday 11 Wks 1-7 ; Examination Schools
The series is aimed at those studying the option for Lit Hum. finals, but others are welcome. Total coverage is neither possible nor desirable, but the aim will be to provide some necessary information and to give some guidance on how to approach these complex texts.
1. Preliminaries; Aeschylus, Agamemnon.
2. Agamemnon, ctd.
3. Choephori.
4. Eumenides.
5. Sophocles, Oed.Tyrannus.
6. Electra.
7. Oedipus at Colonus.
Dr J.L. Lightfoot ; Monday 2 Wks 1-6 ; New College
This series complements and completes the course of Hellenistic poetry lectures last term.
Week 1: Aetiology and Callimachus' Aitia
Week 2: Varieties of epic: the so-called epyllion.
Week 3: Epigram.
Week 4: Alexandria and the Ptolemies: poetry and royalty.
Week 5: Learned poetry and ivory towers
Week 6: Hellenism: Greece, Egypt, and the Near East
Prof. G. O. Hutchinson ; Monday 9 ; Examination Schools
These lectures are meant for primarily for the literary option on Cicero. Those offering Cicero: Politics and Thought in the Late Republic (and indeed anyone else) are welcome to come too; they may find more to interest them in the first five weeks.
1. Drama
2. Opposition
3. Praise
4. War
5. Knowledge
6. Heaping
7. Twisting
8. Meta-rhetoric
Dr R. M. Armstrong ; Wednesday 11 ; St Hilda's College, Lady Brodie Room
Weeks 1-4: Georgics
Weeks 5-6: Ars Amatoria
Dr K. Earnshaw, Dr L. V. Pitcher ; Friday 2-4 ; St John's College (Weeks 1-4); Ioannou Centre (Weeks 5-8)
Weeks 5-8: Dr L Pitcher
Week 5: Seneca - Apocolocyntosis.
Week 6: Calpurnius Siculus.
Week 7: Petronius I
Week 8: Petronius II
Dr L. V. Pitcher ; Thursday 11 Wks 1-4 ; Examination Schools
Week 1: The Time of My Life - The Fasti and the Poet's Career.
Week 2: A Brief History of Time - The Fasti and Ancient Chronography.
Week 3: Show Time - The Fasti and Roman Exemplarity.
Week 4: In Search of Lost Time - The Receptions of the Fasti and the Exile Poetry.
Dr G R Parpulov ; Tuesday 11 Wks 5-8 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr D. Obbink ; Tuesday 11 Wks 1-4 ; Christ Church
Dr S. Scullion ; Friday 2-4 ; Worcester College, Seminar Room A
Prof. S. J. Harrison, Dr S. J. Heyworth ; Tuesday 5-6:30 Wks 1-6 ; Wadham College
Dr F. Macintosh ; Thursday 2 ; Examination Schools
Dr D. Obbink ; Tuesday 1 ; Christ Church
Prof. D.O.M. Charles, Prof. T.H. Irwin ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Radcliffe Humanities, Ryle Room
Prof. M Lauxtermann ; Friday 12 ; Ioannou Centre
Prof. M Lauxtermann ; Friday 10-11:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Dr P Avlamis, Dr S. Hitch ; Wednesday 5-6:30 ; Corpus Christi College
Week 1 (16 January): Johanna Hanink (Brown) and Anna Uhlig (Cambridge)
'σκότος γάρ ἐστιν Αἰσχύλου τεθνηκότος: The Posthumous Life and Works of Aeschylus'
Week 2 (23 January): Robert Fowler (Bristol)
'Mythography and other sub-literary genres'
Week 3 (30 January): Andrew Ford (Princeton)
'Turning the Cannon on Homer: the catalogue of ships in Euripides' IA'
Week 4 (6 February): Emily Pillinger (KCL)
'Litterae and tabulae rasae in Latin poetry'
Week 5 (13 February): Dirk Obbink (Oxford)
'Sappho and the Epic Canon'
Week 6 (20 February): Ahuvia Kahane (RHUL)
'From Thersites to Trimalchio: Canon, Genre, and Historical Time'
Week 7 (27 February): Larry Kim (Trinity College, USA)
'Dionysius of Halicarnassus, classicism and Asianism'
Week 8 (6 March): William Fitzgerald (KCL)
'How to be minor'
Dr P. Goulimari; Tuesday 2 Wks 2, 4, 7 ; Examination Schools
Tuesday 22 January (Week 2), 2 p.m.:
Vergine Gulbenkian, storyteller and folklorist, will be telling and singing her "State of Matter: Tales about Burning", fuelled by a 16th-century love epic.
Tuesday 5 February (Week 4), 2 p.m.:
Dr Anita Kurimay (European University Institute, Florence)
Rethinking the Margins: Hungarian Sexuality in Interwar Europe
Tuesday 26 February (Week 7), 2 p.m.:
Dr April Gallwey (University of Warwick)
Single Motherhood in England post-1945
Prof. C. B. R. Pelling, Dr S. Scullion ; Monday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Miss A. Buglass, Mr T. Mackenzie; Friday 4:15-5:30 ; Ioannou Centre
All graduate students are warmly invited to present an aspect of their current research or a piece they are working on to their peers. The setting is relatively informal with no senior faculty members and is complete with tea and biscuits. The presentations are followed by discussion and questions. All very welcome.
Prof. M.D. Goodman ; Tuesday 2:30-4 ; Oriental Institute
Week 1 (15 January): Tessa Rajak (Somerville) and Martin Goodman, 'The reception of Josephus to 1750'
Week 2 (22 January): QUMRAN FORUM : Joan Taylor (King's College London), 'The Essenes, the Scrolls, and the Dead Sea' (chaired by Geza Vermes (Director of the Qumran Forum))
Week 3 (29 January): James Kugel (Bar-Ilan University and Harvard University), 'The book of Jubilees and ancient biblical interpretation'
Week 4 (5 February): Michael Avioz (Bar-Ilan University), 'Josephus' interpretation of the Book of Samuel'
Week 5 (12 February): Jang S. Ryu (University), 'Philo's discourses of knowledge between Alexandria and Rome'
Week 6 (19 February): Laliv Clenman (Leo Baeck College and King's College London) , 'The Palestinian Talmud and Pinchas the Zealot'
Week 7 (26 February): Arye Edrei (Tel-Aviv University), 'A split diaspora?'
Week 8 (5 March): George Carras (Washington and Lee University), 'Torah observance in diaspora Judaism: Josephus, Philo and Pseudo-Phocylides'
Mr T Phillips, Mr B Taylor ; Thursday 5-6:30 ; Ioannou Centre
Week 1 (17th January): Tim Rood (St. Hugh's) 'Thucydides and Homeric Scholarship'
Week 2 (24th January): Tom Phillips (CCC) 'Intertextuality and Ancient Pindaric Scholarship'
Week 3 (31st January): Richard Hunter (Trinity, Cambridge) 'Plutarch's Works and Days, and Hesiod's'
Week 4 (7th February): David Butterfield (Queens', Cambridge) 'Lucretius' DRN: the subject of scholarly enquiry in antiquity?'
Week 5 (14th February): Helen Kaufmann (Oxford) 'Hide and seek: the construction of meaning in Roman late antiquity'
Week 6 (21st February): Oliver Thomas (St. John's, Cambridge) 'Problemata and Commentary'
Week 7 (28th February): Giuseppe Pezzini (LMH) 'tela volantia: Caesar's De Analogia and the Latin linguistic debate in the late Republic'
Week 8 (7th March): Jane Lightfoot (New College) 'Between literature and science, poetry and prose, Alexandria and Rome: the case of Dionysius' Periegesis of the Known World'
Prof. S. J. Harrison, Dr S. J. Heyworth ; Tuesday 5-6:30 Wks 1-6 ; Wadham College
Dr A. D. Kelly, Dr J.R.W. Prag ; Friday 5:30 Wks 2, 4, 6 ; Balliol College, Lecture Room 23
Week 2 (Friday 25 January): Dr Antonio Naco del Hoyo (Barcelona): 'Intelligence and politics in Mithridates VI's time'
Week 4 (Friday 8 February): Prof Adam Ziolkowski (Warsaw): 'The gates of Pre-Servian Rome and the territorial expansion of the Archaic City'
Week 6 (Friday 22 February): Dr Kostas Vlassopoulos (Nottingham): 'Epigraphies of Slavery'
All are welcome, and wine and soft drinks will be served. Those wishing to dine with the speaker afterwards should contact the secretary (adrian.kelly@balliol.ox.ac.uk) by 5.00 pm Thursday the evening before the paper.
Mr T. Moore, Mr D. Kranzelbinder; Wednesday 7-9 Wks 2, 4, 6, 8 ; Ioannou Centre
This term the PRG will be reading the Phaidon.
Week 2: 57a-72d
Week 4: 72e-84b
Week 6: 84c-102a
Week 8: 102b-118a (end)
For the full PRG termcard please email Daniel Kranzelbinder or Thomas Moore.
Prof. S. J. Harrison, Prof. C. B. R. Pelling ; Friday 2:15-4 ; Corpus Christi College
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